When a neighbor's daughter drowns while under Alice Goodwin's care, a seemingly trivial incident from Alice's past resurfaces and takes on gigantic proportions.
When fifteen-year-old New Yorker Melissa Jensen and her parents move to the midwest, she is confronted by antisemitism for the first time, and she must decide whether to reveal her Jewish heritage to her classmates or to go along with the crowd.
Describes the people, history, land, plants, animals, cities, rural areas, transportation systems, economy, and leisure pursuits of America's midwestern states.
Grandma Essie describes how her family left Missouri by covered wagon looking for a better life and lived in Kansas and Oklahoma before returning to Missouri.